small government is when white people get food stamps
big government is when black people get food stamps
That’s incredibly succinct
The Republican voter base has been conditioned to listen for the dog whistles used by the Southern Aristocrats - the owners of the Republican party - for so long now that some are genuinely surprised that “small government” means something other than thinly veiled racism. Now they’re getting exactly what they asked for, but what they’ve asked for isn’t what they actually want. Cutting government programs hurts rural communities more than cities. The Republican base has become the dog that’s caught the car.
According to the 53rd Chair of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater:
Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”
get the government out of my social security!
Hey now the fascists don’t deserve high quality surprised_pickachu.jpg
I think a red neck missing a face would pass better. Garsh darn Leo-Parts!
… Persians ate my face?
I don’t kink shame 🫂
That’s because they’re hard working but have fallen on hard times not like those other people who take advantage of the government.
They must’ve swallowed
